Meaning of swinker | Babel Free

Definitions

A toiler; a labourer.

archaic, dialectal

Examples

“Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand⟳, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield⟳, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]”

“Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still.”

“[…] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers," the alehouse was assuredly no place⟳ for nuns.”

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